For ex-colonisers, those diamonds are, finally, not forever
by Rashmee
Posted on March 4, 2023 / The Times of India
A great rethink on repatriation of ill-gained artefacts is underway in Britain, France, Germany ……
Read MoreWe need to talk about empire: Britain is being forced to confront its ‘original sin’
by Rashmee
Posted on June 15, 2020 / The Focus
It all started with the death in Minneapolis on 25 May of an unarmed black …
Read MoreTearing down Fawlty Towers won’t promote racial justice
by Rashmee
Posted on June 13, 2020 / The Focus
What links the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers and the statue of a 17th-century slave trader?…
Read MoreThe great game…in Africa
by Rashmee
Posted on February 10, 2020
Europe is fighting hard to be relevant to Africa, its nearest continental neighbour. Today (Feb. …
Read MoreQuestions still linger about colonial-era artefacts
by Rashmee
Posted on December 3, 2019 / The National
Let’s face it, the treatment of colonial-era art can’t really ever be a science. Certainly …
Read MoreThis week, Britain has a deadline to give up its last African colony
by Rashmee
Posted on November 16, 2019
“Global” Britain, that post-Brexit paradox, is coming at the UK in surprising ways. Britain is …
Read MoreJallianwala Bagh massacre: ‘Regret’ doesn’t cut it, Britain ought to say ‘sorry’
by Rashmee
Posted on April 20, 2019 / First Post
On the hundredth anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April 13, Punjab chief minister …
Read MoreMissionary John Chau’s death shows that colonialist ideas of indigenous peoples are still with us
by Rashmee
Posted on November 28, 2018 / The National
There are startling echoes of Somerset Maugham’s 1921 short story “Rain” in the recent death …
Read MoreMelania Trump’s pith helmet represented ‘white supremacist’ 21st-cent colonising force
by Rashmee
Posted on October 11, 2018
I found Elliot Ross’s analysis of Melania Trump’s pith helmet in the African grassland pretty …
Read MoreMelania Trump’s Africa wardrobe evoked a brutal history of colonialism
by Rashmee
Posted on October 10, 2018 / The National
It is pointless to parse US first lady Melania Trump’s outfits for meaning, as the …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK